Person:Peter Godfrey (6)

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Peter Godfrey
b.Abt 1631 England
d.5 Oct 1697 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Peter GodfreyAbt 1631 - 1697
  • W.  Mary BrowneAbt 1636 - 1716
m. 13 May 1656
  1. Andrew Godfrey1656/57 -
  2. Mary Godfrey1659 - 1659
  3. Mary Godfrey1660/61 - 1725
  4. Margaret Godfrey1663 - Aft 1724
  5. Elizabeth Godfrey1666/67 -
  6. Peter Godfrey1669 -
  7. Joanna Godfrey1672 -
  8. James Godfrey1676/77 -
  9. Sarah Godfrey1680 -
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Name Peter Godfrey
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1631 England
Marriage 13 May 1656 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Browne
Death[1][2] 5 Oct 1697 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. ↑ Newbury (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1819-1886. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
    2:598.

    Godfry, Peter, sr., Oct. 5, 1697.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
    767-768.

    Peter Godfrey, b. England abt. 1631 [deposed: age 30 in 1661, age 38 in 1669, age 40 in 1675, age 48 in 1678], d. Newbury 5 Oct 1697, m. Newbury 13 May 1656 Mary Browne.
    Deed 7 Dec 1681 "Peter Godfrey & Mary my Wife" to "John Ordway my Son in law".
    Deed 24 Apr Peter Godfry confirms to "Joseph Richardson ... formerly gave .... upon Contract of his Marriage to my Daughter Margret".
    Will of "Peter Godfrey of the Town of Newbury ... planter", dated 6 Mar 1693, proved 27 Dec 1697, mentions "two Eldest Daughters ... viz Margarit and Mary"; "three younger Daughters ... viz Elizabeth & Johannah & Sarah"; sons James, Andrew, Peter; son Peter sole executor, he to "provid for me and my wife what is nessasary for both of us Dureing our naterall life".

  3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).


    1:276; BROWN; THOMAS 1 of 9; "... the inquir. accept. Walford, in Wales for the derivat. of his anc. as if, in those early days, from that distant principality, a weaver would travel with his w. so far as Southampton to embark, when Bristol and other ports would have been so much nearer. Mary m. 13 May 1656, Peter Godfrey, and d. 16 Apr. 1716."

    2:266; GODFREY; PETER; "PETER, Newbury, m. 13 May 1656, Mary, d. of Thomas Brown, the first white b. in the town, had Andrew, b. 3 Mar. 1657; Mary, 21 Oct. 1659, d. in 2 wks.; Mary, again, 23 Jan. 1661; Margaret, 9 Oct. 1663; Elizabeth 8 Feb. 1667; Peter, 14 Nov. 1669; Joanna, 16 Nov. 1672; James, 9 Mar. 1677; and Sarah, 7 Apr. ..."

    3:315; ORDWAY; JOHN; "JOHN, Newbury, br. of the preced. m. 5 Dec. 1681, Mary, d. of Peter Godfrey, had Mary, b. 18 Sept. 1682; John, 29 Oct. 1684; James, 4 July 1687; Esther, Aug. 1689; Peter, 15 Sept. 1691; Hannah, 20 Nov. 1693, d. in two wks.; Hannah, again, 6 Mar. 1695; Stephen, 8 Apr. 1697; Ann, 15 May 1699; and Nathan, 28 Apr. ..."

    3:536-537; RICHARDSON, RICHASON or RICHESON often in old rec; JOSEPH 2 of 2; "JOSEPH, Newbury, s. of William, m. 12 July 1681, Margaret, d. of Peter Godfrey, had Mary, b. 16 Apr. 1682; William, 22 Mar. 1684; Joseph, 31 Dec. 1686; Elizabeth 28 Feb. 1689; Daniel, 4 Apr. 1692; Sarah, 19 June 1694; Thomas, 15 Feb. 1697; and Caleb, 9 June 1704."

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